Karl Jaspers Quotes

I fight for the right to be an individual. I have to be meself.

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

I do only what I like. If we do something we don't like, we will become someone else.

I'm not trying to live anybody else's life.

Either I choose to behave or live a life of someone else, or I choose to be myself and live the life the way I want.

I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

I'm doing what I want to do.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

For the first time I'm free to be myself.

Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like.

Don't let others define you. You define yourself.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

I can be whoever I want. I can feel however I want.

I'm just going to live my life the way I want to.

I didn't have to listen to nobody or look how anybody wanted me to look. I just wanted to be myself and look however I want.